Some observers in the lead-up to last week’s meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage Alaska hoped that a dialogue might be established where the broader issue of creating a new European security model that would reduce tensions...
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Has Putin Learned the Lessons of the Battle of Debaltseve and Minsk II?
by Larry C. Johnson | Aug 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
I will answer my question right up front: Yes! The reaction of the West, especially that of Donald Trump, to Russia’s current offensive all along the line of contact, is reminiscent of the panic that seized the West in 2015 following Ukraine’s loss in...
Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine. His instincts–that continued involvement in that conflict was not in...
Russophrenia: the West’s Favorite Delusion about Russia
by Brian McDonald | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
There’s a peculiar affliction that’s gripped the Western commentariat for decades now. I first diagnosed it in June 2015 and gave it a name: Russophrenia. The tell-tale sign? That deep-set conviction that Russia’s about to keel over economically—then somehow...
The Secondary Sanctions Squeeze
by Moon of Alabama | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
US President Donald Trump is now largely following his predecessors hostile policy towards Russia. If the war in Ukraine continues on its current path Russia will end it with an outright victory. The US and its European vassals are trying to impose a ceasefire to...
Cold War 2.0 Heats Up
by Ron Paul | Aug 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War. The United States...
When the Bully Bluff Blows
by William Schryver | Jul 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
The United States wielded near-total hegemony from at least the early 1990s to 2014 or so, at which point the first big irreversible cracks began to form. Russia took back Crimea, and took the Donbass under its wing. China began to methodically divest itself of US...
NATO Expansion — The Root Cause of the War in Ukraine
by Larry C. Johnson | Jul 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
I know there is a lot of interest in the Jeffrey Epstein story and the new revelations from Tulsi Gabbard about Barack Obama and his team’s efforts to fan the flames of Russiagate. I have been all over the Russiagate matter since 2017. Here is the link...
The CIA Initiated an Intelligence and Terrorist War on Russia Based on a Lie
by Larry C. Johnson | Jul 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
Foreign Policy published an article last week by Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes, with the title, When the Threat Is Inside the White House: What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and toadies now in charge of U.S. national security. While...
World War III has Already Begun
by Dmitry Trenin | Jul 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
Many now speak of humanity’s drift towards World War III, imagining events similar to those of the 20th century. But war evolves. It will not begin with a June 1941 Barbarossa-style invasion or a Cuban Missile Crisis-style nuclear standoff. In fact, the new world war...
The Redheaded Stepsister Goes to the Ball
by William Schryver | Jul 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
Against the AGM-158 JASSM missile, has Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge finally met its match? Talk of sending Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles to Ukraine commenced last year, during the later months of the Biden administration. It was reported...
CIA: Our Trump-Russiagate Claims Were Corrupt, Our Claims On Iran Are …
by Moon of Alabama | Jul 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
The CIA has published a "tradecraft review" of the 2016 "Intelligence Community Assessment" which had claimed that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election. The review found what had been obvious to anyone. The 2016 assessment had not followed the...
Middle East in Crisis After US Bombing of Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices in the Kremlin, wrote on the Telegram channel on June 23 a critique on the Middle East crisis following the US attack on Iran’s three key...
The Silence of the Bears
by Alastair Crooke | Jun 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
Russia’s leadership is in “conclave” determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges...
Merz’s Reich
by RT | Jun 6, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What has happened to Europe? Why is its rhetoric so bombastic and militaristic? Why are Europe’s leaders so afraid of democracy? Why is the continuation of the Ukraine war so important for them? And what does any of this have to do with so-called ‘European values’?...
Zelensky On The Ropes? With Guest Philip Giraldi
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 5, 2025 | The Liberty Report
The Deep State’s Drone Attack Was Aimed To Escalate The Ukraine War And Deny Trump His Nobel Peace Prize
by David Stockman | Jun 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
POTUS better wake up. Quick. The Deep State is in the midst of f#cking him yet again. We are referring, of course, to Sunday's utterly reckless attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrent, allegedly by the Ukrainian military. Yes, the one that’s so feeble and...
Trump Won’t Walk Away from Ukraine War
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on January 20 withdrawing all support for Ukraine. That would have been the easiest way to end the war. The conditions were propitious — Candidate Trump...
After Three Years, Ukraine is a Grim Scene
by David Rehak | Jun 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
We can see that the direction of Ukrainian military operations has placed serious doubts in the minds of many of the front-line regular troops, and especially over the past year or so their uncertainty has increased and their morale has diminished. It is impossible...
From Kiev, Lindsey Graham Blows Up Trump’s Ukraine Policy
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 2, 2025 | The Liberty Report
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